Recent Trends in Antifungal Agents and Antifungal Therapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Basak, Amit (Editor), Chakraborty, Ranadhir (Editor), Mandal, Santi M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Immunology.; Bacteriology.; Microscopy.; Mycology.; Life Sciences.; Biological Microscopy.

Fungal infections have taken a new spectrum due to the increased incidence of multi-drug resistant fungal pathogens. Freedom of choice for drugs to treat fungal infections is also narrow because of lesser probability of discovering drugs that would bypass affecting human cells and target fungal cell...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Fungi Fights Fungi: Tip off in Antifungal Chemotherapy
• 2. Essential Oil and Antifungal Therapy
• 3. Antifungal Peptides with Potential Against Pathogenic Fungi
• 4. Lipopeptides: Status and Strategies to Control Fungal Infection
• 5. Plant Derived Antifungal Agents: Past and Recent Developments
• 6. Recent Advancements in Combinational Antifungal Therapy and Immunotherapy
• 7. Nanocarriers of Antifungal Agents
• 8. Synthetic Compounds for Antifungal Chemotherapy
• 9. Antifungal therapy in Eye infections: New Drugs, New Trends
• 10. Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Dermatophytes.